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Glad Day. 56KB
Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion, engraving. 64KB
Dante and Virgil at the Gates of Hell (Illustration to Dante's Inferno). 180KB
Whirlwind of Lovers (Illustration to Dante's Inferno), Birmingham Art Gallery. 131KB
The Marriage of Heaven & Hell, 1790-93, private collection. 87KB
God as an Architect, illustration from The Ancient of Days, 1794. 96KB
Job and his Daughters, 1799-1800, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C. 65KB ...
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Blake, William
Blake, William (b. Nov. 28, 1757, London--d. Aug. 12, 1827, London)
English poet, painter, engraver; one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism. The most famous of Blake's lyrical poems is Auguries of Innocence, with its memorable opening stanza:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
(Biographie en français)
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Blake, William
Blake, William, 1757–1827, Engl ...
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William Blake
British, 1757 - 1827
The third son of the five children of James Blake and his wife, Catherine, Blake was born near Golden Square, Soho, in London, on 28 November 1757. He entered Henry Pars' drawing school in the Strand at the age of ten, was writing poetry by the age of twelve, and by the time he was twenty had produced some of the finest lyrical poetry in the English language. In 1772 he was apprenticed for seven years to the successful engraver James Basire, who em ...
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